A majority of voices are clamoring for Japan to criminalize prostitution buyers. Here’s why the country's sex worker advocates oppose that.

Oshikatsu has girls turning to sex work to give money to their favorite performers. Some are as young as 15.

The rules and agreements meant to help save women from the worst abuses aren't helping, as clubs have already figured out a way around them.

What are happening bars? What actually "happens" in one? And the bigger question as a foreigner in Japan: Will they even allow you in?

Touts and scouts in Kabukicho say they feel they're in the middle of a crackdown. Will this new attempt to "clean up" Shinjuku work?

GLP-1 drugs aren't approved for dietary use in Japan. That's led to a thriving black market in the streets of Tokyo and online.